Amazing win for Team India at Galle
Team India defeated Sri lanka by 304 runs in the First Test match of Tri- test series at Galle today. Ashwin and Jadeja took three wickets each and Shami took two wickets , Sri lankans were all out at 245.Team India scored 600 in the first innings and 240/3 declared in the second innings and set a target of 550 before Sri lanka.
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0 Previous instances of India winning the first (or only) Test of a series in Sri Lanka. The first Test of four series till 2000 ended as stalemates while India lost each of the four opening games of a series since, three of those defeats coming in Galle. Galle is the 12th venue away from home for India and third in Sri Lanka where they have won multiple Tests.
304 The losing margin of 304 runs is the biggest for Sri Lanka in a Test match in terms of runs eclipsing the 301-run defeat against Pakistan at Colombo (PSS) in 1994. It was also India's biggest win in terms of runs in a Test outside India. The previous biggest win was by 279 runs against England in Leeds in 1986.
Biggest away Test wins for India
| Margin | Against | Venue | Start Date | Captain |
| 304 | SL | Galle | 26-Jul-17 | V Kohli |
| 279 | Eng | Leeds | 19-Jun-86 | Kapil Dev |
| 278 | SL | Colombo(PSS) | 20-Aug-15 | V Kohli |
| 272 | NZ | Auckland | 7-Mar-68 | MAK Pataudi |
| 237 | WI | Gros Islet | 9-Aug-16 | V Kohli |
2 This Test was only the second instance of India not enforcing follow-on after gaining a first innings lead in excess of 300. The only other time it happened was against England at the Oval in 2007 under Rahul Dravid's captaincy. It was the final Test of that series with India already 1-0 ahead.
204 Shikhar Dhawan's aggregate in this Test - third Indian to post more than 200 in a Test in Sri Lanka after Virender Sehwag in Galle in 2008 and Sachin Tendulkar in Colombo (SSC) in 2010. It was also the most amassed by Dhawan in a Test eclipsing 187 he made on debut in 2013.
14 Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane became the 14th Indian pair to put together 2000-plus partnership runs in Tests. Their average of 65.61 per dismissal is the second best among the 14 pairs, only behind 68.40 between Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara.
Best batting pairs for India (Min 2000 runs)
| Partners | Inngs | Runs | Highest | Avg | 100s | 50s |
| C Pujara, M Vijay | 37 | 2531 | 370 | 68.40 | 9 | 9 |
| V Kohli, A Rahane | 32 | 2034 | 365 | 65.61 | 5 | 10 |
| S Ganguly, S Tendulkar | 71 | 4173 | 281 | 61.36 | 12 | 16 |
| R Dravid, V Sehwag | 58 | 3383 | 410 | 60.41 | 10 | 11 |
| M Azharuddin, S Tendulkar | 42 | 2385 | 222 | 58.17 | 9 | 5 |
| M Amarnath, S Gavaskar | 44 | 2366 | 224 | 55.02 | 10 | 7 |
840 runs made by India is the highest for them in a Test against Sri Lanka, going past 838 they made in Ahmedabad in 2009. It was the second most by any team in a Galle Test after the home side's 905 against Bangladesh in 2013. Overall, it's the sixth highest match aggregate for India in a Test and highest ever in Sri Lanka.
550 The target of 550 set by India is the second highest set by them in a Test after 617 against New Zealand in Wellington in 2009. It is also the highest set by any team against Sri Lanka, beating 522 by Australia in Hobart in 1989. Overall, it's the fifth instance of them setting a target of 500 or more with a win-draw record of 3-2.
Highest fourth innings target set by India
| Target | Against | Ground | Start Date | Result | Captain |
| 617 | NZ | Wellington | 3-Apr-09 | draw | MS Dhoni |
| 550 | SL | Galle | 26-Jul-17 | won | V Kohli |
| 516 | Aus | Mohali | 17-Oct-08 | won | MS Dhoni |
| 509 | SL | Ahmedabad | 18-Dec-05 | won | V Sehwag |
| 500 | Eng | The Oval | 9-Aug-07 | draw | R Dravid |
| 481 | SA | Delhi | 3-Dec-15 | won | V Kohli |
44 Innings taken by Kohli to register his tenth Test century while leading the side. Only Sunil Gavaskar has scored more Test hundreds as skipper of India in Test cricket - 11 from 74 innings. It was his sixth Test hundred away from home as captain which puts him of the top of list among Indian captains going past five by Mohammad Azharuddin.
2 Half centuries hit by Niroshan Dickwella in the fourth innings of a Test. He scored 81 in Sri Lanka's previous Test against Zimbabwe a few weeks earlier before following it up with 67 in this match. All other Sri Lankan wicketkeepers together have combined to score two other fifties. All these have come in the last two years.
97 by Dimuth Karunaratne is the third highest individual score by a Sri Lankan opener in the fourth innings of a Test. The only one to score a hundred was Sanath Jayasuriya, who did it twice - in Adelaide in 1996 and in Kandy in 2004 - both against Australia and both in losing causes.
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